Hi, I’m Aaron Millerand
Social worker, researcher, disability consultant and founder of Breaking Limits
A bit about me
My background brings together social work, research and lived experience as a person with Cerebral Palsy, with my career spanning 15 years.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about disability, not just in professional or academic terms, but through the ordinary details of everyday life. How people are responded to. What gets recognised. What gets missed. And how much those things can shape the way someone moves through the world.
Those questions have stayed with me for years, and they continue to shape the way I think and the way I approach what I do.
Outside of all that, I’m a pop culture and superhero nerd, with a serious addiction to coffee, who loves spending time in nature.
Qualifications and research
I hold a Bachelor of Social Work (Honours), a Master of Internet Communications and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. I have also completed my doctoral thesis, which is currently under examination.
My doctoral research focused on the experiences of young people with physical disability, particularly how participation and future direction are shaped through everyday interaction and broader social conditions.
It sharpened the questions I was already asking and gave me a stronger framework for understanding how disability is experienced, interpreted and responded to across everyday life.
I have also contributed to published research in this area, including:
Bellerose D, Bolzan N, Gale F, Herbert J, Millerand A and Rösler B 2016, Fostering Social Resilience Through Online Communities: An Evaluation of the Livewire Chat Room, Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne. Available at:
https://researchers-admin.westernsydney.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/339281732/Open%20Access.pdf
Why I created Breaking Limits
I created Breaking Limits because I wanted to build something that felt more honest, more thoughtful and more connected to the realities people are actually living.
Too often, disability is approached in ways that feel narrow, formulaic or disconnected from real life. Recognition can be inconsistent, and participation can be shaped by barriers that are not always obvious to the people around them.
I didn’t want to replicate that.
Breaking Limits is how I respond differently — by bringing together what I know, what I’ve lived and what I care about into something that is clear in purpose and grounded in reality.
How it comes together
Breaking Limits operates across two connected areas.
Support & Wellness focuses on direct support with individuals and families, shaped around goals, everyday life, wellbeing and participation.
Consulting & Education focuses on organisations and community settings, strengthening understanding of disability, deepening recognition and supporting more considered responses in practice and culture.
My approach
The way I approach things is grounded in a few core commitments:
recognition and dignity
agency and self-direction
access and participation
clear professional boundaries
thoughtful, grounded engagement
I’m not interested in generic or surface-level approaches. I care about clarity, depth and whether something actually connects to real life.
What Breaking Limits stands for
At its core, Breaking Limits is about stronger understanding, clearer recognition and more meaningful participation.
It is grounded in the belief that the way disability is understood and responded to can either open things up or quietly limit what becomes possible. Better recognition does not solve everything, but it changes the conditions people move through — and that matters.
Get in touch
If you’d like to learn more about Breaking Limits or explore the right starting point, get in touch.